In a letter written by the Sanitary District's Executive Director Cheri Cousins to its board of commissioners, Cousins said they lost power early Monday morning as a result of a wind and rain storm.

The facility gets their power from two separate power sources, so they have backup power if one source goes down. In this case, both were out.

"I think every sanitary district in the country should have a backup generator," Haverhill Mayor James Fiorentini said. "There's always going to be power outages. One-hundred-year storms seem to happen every two-three years now and that's what happens."